WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from February 1, 2024

Listener comments!
	4:47pm Trouble: Good Morning! the origin of the title of today's show: lithub.com...
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Bright-gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled. Reading that Solnit piece makes me very glad that I have no engagement with social media past these very chatboards.
	9:01am Listener Bryan (the Professor): morning, trouble & troubled modernists.
	9:01am bradford: Good morning Trouble & all!
	9:01am Crownless Gander: Good morning! Solnit is so wise, thank you!
	9:01am Strandlund: Good Morning Trouble and all the Modernaires out there tuning in...
	9:02am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and everyone! My dental appointment was canceled, so I’m able to enjoy the show live and with a non-numb mouth!
	9:02am Edgar from Maine: Gmornin ... Interesting theme and a reminder about why I left all those social media platforms.
	9:02am common: hello, trouble. hello all.
	9:02am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Don't know if you caught it, Trouble, but Scott featured Johnny Boy on the FMU Hitlist segment this morning and it really took me back to the early days. (My early days anyway.) <3
	9:02am TDK60: Hello DJ Trouble.
	9:04am Ben from Newark: Good morning Trouble, everyone!
	9:04am Chris Hiatt: Good morning to all!
	9:04am Dances with Moomins: Cheers to the Moderns. It was a lovely sunny day in SW Finland ( sunset now !)
	9:04am HyperDose: The ascension begins
	9:04am Jim the Poet: This is cool
	9:05am 2/3 of the Perrin Family: in the belly
	9:05am Ike: I can dig it.
	9:05am Robm: morning trouble and fellow troublemakers
	9:07am ami ad: Hello DJ. Hello all.
	9:08am bixa: ↳ Trouble @4:47 hahahaa, enjoyed this, thnx for sharing
	9:08am doctorjazz: Hi all!
	9:10am Paulo AD: Hiya trouble :)
	9:12am StringOFperils: Good morning coffee raga
	9:14am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Trouble @4:47 Sarcasm detected :-)
	9:14am Acid Cazh: Sitar resonator strings always sound like crickets to me.
	9:14am Trouble: happy imbolc/ st brigid's day. brigid is the first female saint with a designated day, says my friend Paul in ireland
	9:15am Triple G: Hello Trouble and Troublemakers
	9:15am Vivian: Nowadays, I only post to social media the latest work from the kiln. Besides that, I may chime in if someone needs help with the TNR group or if someone's dog is on the loose, but that's it. Lately, the neighborhood posts are just selfish rants or full of misinformation. Don't have time for that nonsense.
	9:16am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Acid Cazh @9:14 it's due to the shape of the bridge, which curves away from the strings gradually, instead of dropping off sharply like a guitar or violin. i think it's fascinating that such a small change like that makes such a huge difference in the sound.
	9:17am Triple G: ↳ Song: "raga abhogi-kanada p.d." by "ravi shankar" Musical Instrument Museum (in Phoenix, AZ) is a gem! My wife and I went there last month. A ton of famous musicians' instruments on display, including Ravi Shankar's sitar from the Concert for Bangladesh. mim.org
	9:18am Edgar from Maine: ↳ Triple G @9:17 Agree!! It's a magnificent museum of gigantic scope!
	9:19am HyperDose: Bryce is loving this...wherever he is
	9:20am PaulRobeson1924: Freedom
	9:20am chresti: Morning Touble and troubled!
	9:20am still b/p: ↳ Trouble @9:14 St. Brigid also has a particular woven cross as her symbol. One was in our house when I was a laddie, and they're still spotted around today, sometimes still woven and hanging in homes, sometimes in jewelry.
	9:20am tom tom the pipers son: good morning trouble and people...
	9:20am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Triple G @9:17 Yes, absolutely worth a visit! I spent a whole day there and only saw half of it, I want to go back. They have the FIRST GUITAR ever made, as well as Hendrix' axe, and so much more.
	9:21am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:20 The bass used by "Family Man" Ashton Barrett on some of my fav. dub/reggae LPs... I could go on...
	9:23am northguineahills: i got to work early, so, i decided to explore the neighborhood, and spent time at the irish hunger memorial in battery city (right next to the ferry that goes to jersey city). I feel more refreshed after chillin' and learnin'....
	9:24am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ northguineahills @9:23 that's a beautiful spot, isn't it?
	9:26am Handy Haversack: ↳ northguineahills @9:23 I used to be able to go Greenpoint to Jersey City by water, but they cut service pretty drastically from Wall Street.
	9:26am chresti: ↳ Song: "raga abhogi-kanada p.d." by "ravi shankar" This is going well with the rain this very early pre-coffee time!
	9:28am Paulo AD: I finally managed to drift off to this awesome tune... Then woke myself up snoring hahah
	9:28am Trouble: sorry, apparently this record needs a serious cleaning. hopefully that will get rid of some of that popping noise...
	9:29am Jim the Poet: sounds ok from here
	9:30am Triple G: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:20 @Charles @Edgar Yes, it's really an awe-inspiring and overwhelming space ... could easily spend an entire day there and then some
	9:30am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "gentle on my mind" by "elvis presley" awwww
	9:30am tom tom the pipers son: from shankar to elvis? but it worked...
	9:30am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:24 great view! (also, from my office window, I can see montgomery st)
	9:31am Edgar from Maine: ↳ Triple G @9:30 The charango made out of an armadillo!!
	9:31am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "gentle on my mind" by "elvis presley" Sitar-to-clavinet is a nice transition.
	9:31am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Triple G @9:30 Just remembered - Glen Campbell's bagpipes! (He was a proud Scotsman and would start his shows with a little piping.) Along with his rhinestone suitt.
	9:32am northguineahills: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:26 that sucks. I used to take the greenpoint ferry to wall street back in the day (well, when the ferry became a regular thing)
	9:32am still b/p: The intersection of Presley and Hartford should introduce some kinda....something in the world's energies. Others might feel it right now and not know why, but we do.
	9:32am jg: Best version is Dean Martin but Elvis is right up there
	9:32am Ben from Newark: ↳ Vivian @9:15 Glad to hear that you help out with your local TNR group! My wife Liz works with a number of TNR and animal rescue groups in Essex County. She gets so frustrated when she posts on social media asking for help, but is met with a flood of comments about how cute the cats are, instead of any meaningful offers for assistance.
	9:33am Zip7: Hello Troubled modernists! The Ravi Shankar performance in "Monterey Pop"was my introduction to Indian music and is stlll riveting -- I used to show it in classes
	9:34am maurer: ↳ Song: "baby blue" by "13th Floor Elevators" elevators! all hail roky! (not my fav song from this album, but I will take it!). earthquake might be my fav...
	9:34am Edgar from Maine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:31 Alice Coopers silver suit with the tophat made out of mirrors!
	9:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "baby blue" by "13th Floor Elevators" isn't trhere video of roky eriksson singing this in the back of a car in a doc about him
	9:35am PNX: What is it about this recording that sounds so good? It's got some kind of low-fi thing going on.
	9:36am Philip: psych-roky.
	9:37am maurer: ↳ PNX @9:35 they had an early 8-track recorder, recorded the band live, then each person re-recorded their performance... so there are 'ghost' vocals from the original band performance as well as the final vocals...
	9:38am Jim the Poet: No! Don't leave me, Baby Blue!
	9:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ maurer @9:37 lsd makes you think funny...
	9:38am Webhamster Henry: Nice Art today, Trouble!
	9:39am PNX: ↳ maurer @9:37 Yes! Thank you!
	9:39am Edgar from Maine: Just birds Trouble.
	9:39am Jim the Poet: I didn't hear it
	9:39am GeorgeHatesFun: No buzzes!
	9:39am bixa: my friend texted me today that they are playing hookey to go to the park and look for first signs of spring and "find a well to clean to honor imbolc today"
	9:39am Triple G: It didn't work, correct
	9:39am Webhamster Henry: Failed!
	9:40am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ Song: "baby blue" by "13th Floor Elevators" What a gorgeous song
	9:40am Triple G: 13th Floor Elevators, straight outta Austin
	9:40am Clincher16": That's the most pleasant emergency alert system test I ever heard!
	9:40am Vivian: My condolences Trouble.
	9:40am Sera from Rockaway: Sorry for your loss, Trouble
	9:40am Edgar from Maine: I do very much like the idea of those horrible alarms being replaced with chirping. Would the FCC be cool with it?
	9:40am Clincher16": ↳ Jim the Poet @9:38 It's all over now, I'm afraid.
	9:40am still b/p: ↳ jg @9:32 Saw this the other day -- our friend Dean with a face the artist or artist's boss thought was better than his real one. Looks like hints of other familiar faces grafted in there for a scoff-worthy pulp-magazine sort of hybrid. www.pulpinternational.com...
	9:40am Webhamster Henry: "This was a test! Of the Emergency Broadcast System! (Did you pass?)" << old radio station cart
	9:40am Karmalize: thanks so much for sharing about beverly gene(jean?)
	9:41am Joe: My condolences, Trouble. Thank you for the tribute. ❤️
	9:41am Regina J: I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother-in-law. Condolences to you and your family.
	9:41am Karmalize: my sister Alisa also let go on tuesday, and i played baby blue for her in hospice on her guitar
	9:41am Sera from Rockaway: WOW! Bev met the King
	9:42am Karmalize: your motherinlaw seems so cool
	9:42am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ Karmalize @9:41 That's really beautiful K, so sorry for your loss. Music is the balm
	9:43am Jim the Poet: ↳ Clincher16" @9:40 Baby Blue is always dumping me
	9:44am Clincher16": ↳ Jim the Poet @9:43 LOVE the new Framptuary avatar, Poet Man!
	9:45am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Sending love to all of you, Trouble!
	9:45am tom tom the pipers son: condolences to your husband(and you) i worked with him briefly a long time ago
	9:46am common: ↳ Song: "Akousmatikous (feat. Soccer96" by "salami rose jo... this is cool
	9:46am Clincher16": You're a sweet soul, Trouble. May your mominlaw's memory be for a blessing.
	9:46am Zip7: Best wishes to you and your family, Trouble
	9:47am D Rok: ↳ Song: "Akousmatikous (feat. Soccer96" by "salami rose jo... Jesus, this is good! I had already added it to my bandcamp wishlist, but glad to be reminded how amazing it is.
	9:48am Ben from Newark: Best wishes to you and your husband, Trouble
	9:48am Philip: Nina!!!! Thanks for this
	9:49am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "i think it's going to rain today" by "nina simone" Great call, Trouble. Sympathy and solidarity for you and your family. Glad we could all be here to hear you.
	9:50am PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Song: "i think it's going to rain today" by "nina simone" I have such a hard time reconciling that the guy who wrote this song is also the guy who wrote "Short People"
	9:51am Clincher16": ↳ PigeonsAndRust @9:50 You should hear "Rednecks." Randy works on a whole other level.
	9:51am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "i think it's going to rain today" by "nina simone" Cool Version!
	9:52am Toothgrinder Tom: ‘Short People’ is so over the top that I assume it must be some kind of joke or satire of something.
	9:52am Jamie: Trouble... i have been very delinquent in my intention to thank you for your excellent show ... but how can i not mention this wild coincidence to you ...(even as i offer you condolences for your loss): My mother's name was 'Beverly Jean', and while looking after my grandmother's failing health at the Mayo in MN (long ago), she had daily smoking breaks and long conversations "...with a very interesting man who wore unusual leather clothing...". One day he asked her if she know who he was. She. Did. Not. Know she had been spending her smoking breaks chatting with Johnny Cash.
	9:54am money&pain: ↳ Clincher16" @9:51 And Guilty! And Suzanne (not the LC one)
	9:54am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Le Composant Compositeur" by "Phillipe Doray & Le... I can almost smell Gainsbourg on this one
	9:54am Trouble: that is an insane story@ jamie: wow!
	9:55am Dan S: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @9:50 I like and admire Randy Newman for his ability to write both sincere and satiric songs.
	9:55am Spikey BXL: Condolences to you, Trouble.
	9:56am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jamie @9:52 Holy crow!
	9:59am StringOFperils: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:52 All of Randy Newman's writing IS some kind of joke or satire of something, often self-satire, like advertising jingles written by Mark Twain
	10:00am Edgar from Maine: There we go. FCC can sleep now.
	10:01am Handy Haversack: I am alerted.
	10:01am Scott Williams: GOOD JOB
	10:01am money&pain: I'd say irony is the word, for most of the songs.
	10:01am blee: i heard the warning blips!
	10:01am Dan S: We heard the EAS tones, so i think you're good.
	10:02am Toothgrinder Tom: @StringOfPerils one might say ‘it’s a jungle out there.’
	10:02am JohnEBGood: Hi DJ Trouble. Happy New Year : )
	10:02am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:52 I remember when that song came out, I was a mildly shocked that some people were offended, not understanding the satire. He lays it on pretty thick!
	10:03am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles I was just a kid so found it initially kind of shocking (I was unfamiliar with satire at that age).
	10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:03 I was well-schooled thanks to MAD Magazine :-)
	10:05am Toothgrinder Tom: If Mr Fireman really wants to help ‘the people,’ he could donate his private golf course to the city as a municipal golf course.
	10:06am Panther: Billionaires suck!!!!
	10:07am Ben from Newark: ↳ Clincher16" @9:51 Yes, incredible song, and his sarcasm is lost on so many people. Same with "Louisiana 1927", which was replayed/covered a lot during Hurricane Katrina, despite being an incredibly cynical song about the flood ("ain't it a shame, what the river has done to this poor cracker's land")
	10:07am loucommando: I loooove Orlando sound trck
	10:07am Edgar from Maine: Goldman Sachs only cares about shareholder value. That is exactly the opposite of public service. F*ck em.
	10:08am Toothgrinder Tom: I wish he would amuse himself by getting Ivy League college presidents fired as other public-minded billionaires are wont to do.
	10:08am loucommando: Thats some art school brat music right there!!
	10:09am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dances with Moomins @9:04 Hi Dances w/ Moomins! My son came back from Stockholm with lots of Moomin Merch like (holding it up) this Snorkmaiden branded lip gloss!
	10:09am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles that wasn’t quite on my radar yet being only about 7, but I was about to be exposed to Steve Martin’s ‘King Tut’ parody song, so progress was being made.
	10:11am Ben from Newark: ↳ Dan S @9:55 sometimes both in the same song!
	10:12am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:09 Born in Arizona, Moved to Babylonia!
	10:12am tom tom the pipers son: a favorite song , "baltimore" also touches on a sad irony..." get a cart to take us all away", "never coming back here til the day i die", pipedreams, like the end of the film "parasite"
	10:12am money&pain: ↳ Ben from Newark @10:07 Actually, since the point of the song was that no politicians actually cared about the people afflicted, kind of the perfect song
	10:13am StringOFperils: Wealth-mining in America 1.01. Hopefully the public will be motivated to lobby that park redevelopment away somehow. Yeesh.....I know I know I'm still obsessing...
	10:13am Charles in Chicago: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:12 there's a great reggae version of Baltimore by the Tamlins ... and "Taxi to Baltimore Dub" on Scientist's "Scientific Dub" album (which I love)
	10:14am Ben from Newark: ↳ money&pain @10:12 Very, very true. My point was more that the song was covered at the time as a "song of hope" type thing. But totally true, and a sad example of history repeating itself
	10:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:13 i usually find reggae covers remarkable thx
	10:15am money&pain: ↳ Ben from Newark @10:14 Yeah! I mean unintentionally appropriate.
	10:16am JohnEBGood: Go Go Go DJ! Legend Coach Bob Hurley has spoken up. JC needs an ice rink. Joe Duffy was active in the 1970's to preserve the park at Grand and Washington. He fought and we won!! Peace 🥂
	10:16am money&pain: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:15 Not reggae, but Nilsson's album of Newman covers is nice.
	10:17am HotTopicValuedCustomer: Been loving this album lately
	10:17am money&pain: Meanwhile, like the sweet melancholy vibe today, Trouble. Thank you.
	10:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ money&pain @10:16 sort of familiar with that, but "baltimore" is not covered, right?
	10:18am Trouble: @ johnebgood: Coach hurley receives a $250, 000 salary to head this specious non profit created by paul fireman. he is no longer a good guy
	10:19am Charles in Chicago: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:17 nope www.discogs.com...
	10:20am Trouble: nina simone does a great version of "Baltimore"
	10:21am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:19 (Just realized for the first time that the GBV song "Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5" is probably referencing Randy Newman's "Dayton, Ohio 1903"... I don't know a lot of these Randy Newman songs)
	10:21am StringOFperils: I like Nina Simone's cover of . Baltimore .
	10:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:19 i remember "the behive state" having great lyrics...
	10:21am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Trouble @10:20 Yeah, I think the reggae version is based on Nina Simone's version.
	10:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:21 yes the simone version is reggae tinged
	10:22am Charles in Chicago: Newman -> Simone -> Tamlins -> Scientist. (And I heard the Scientist version first!)
	10:22am HotTopicValuedCustomer: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:21 GBV is so much its own universe at this point I forget that it exists alongside Randy Newman
	10:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and troubled ears.
	10:23am Charles in Chicago: "The Tamlins gained wider attention for their Sly and Robbie–produced version of the Randy Newman song "Baltimore", which gave them one of the biggest hits in Jamaica in 1979. The arrangement on that single was strongly influenced by that used on Nina Simone's cover of the song, released the previous year"
	10:26am money&pain: Well, we managed a whole Randy Newman thread without mentioning his greatest song-- Sail Away.
	10:26am tom tom the pipers son: one of my favorite lyrics from baltimore, "beat up little seagull on a marble stair" so effective, the contrast of soft and hard...
	10:27am JohnEBGood: Oh well. It's still JC. I grew up Downtown when Colgates had the waterfront. Sussex Street to the Hudson River we called Suicide Hill.
	10:27am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone.
	10:30am rx "rexy" scabin: Just read back into the comments. Condolences.
	10:31am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack same here.
	10:31am Fredericks: ↳ Trouble @9:28 Tite Bond II.
	10:34am Listener Bryan (the Professor): wow, this set. but the sakamoto b/w cocteau twins just pushes it over the edge. so good.
	10:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "beatrix" by "cocteau twins" this is reminding me of kate bush
	10:35am ranjit: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:34 me too! (I feel like i am often dittoing you, tom tom)
	10:36am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:34 Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt.
	10:37am ranjit: i never attempt.
	10:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ranjit @10:35 yes, ha! btw, that eastman that david w played yesterday was beyond beyond...huh...
	10:38am JohnEBGood: Hey DJ, are you familiar with musician East River Pipe? WFMU DJ 's have played the music and I like it : )
	10:38am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles 10:12 had a condo made of stone-ah.
	10:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ranjit @10:35 somehow... i must be the faster typist...;)
	10:38am ranjit: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:37 it really was
	10:39am Dances with Moomins: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:09 Hi Webmaster, They have much to teach those rascally moomins.
	10:40am Trouble: i have east river pipe with me today and it will be up soon...
	10:43am Yes: morning all
	10:44am bixa: ↳ Song: "a quiet thing" by "wes montgomery" beautiful ♥
	10:47am tom tom the pipers son: this is gebru
	10:47am Toothgrinder Tom: Wow Wes Montgomery on the woofmoo airwaves!
	10:52am G: so quero um xodo was a popular Brazilian country song in the 70s when I lived there. It means roughly "I Only Want a Girlfriend."
	10:53am Feldy: Really enjoying the heck outta the show!
	10:53am tom tom the pipers son: the last three especially have been a nice fit, that gebru, so natural, like a bird walking across keyboard
	10:54am Handy Haversack: I'll have to be in a meeting the last hour of the show, but I'll have it in my headphones. It's been wonderful, Trouble! Many thanks!
	10:54am Chris Hiatt: Back with you all. Had to check the price of swedes, it's not good today.
	10:56am slugluv1313: good morning, Trouble! Trouble Makers! 😺😺 thank.you for talking about Liberty State Park! a listener also commented about this a few nights ago (wish i could remember their name, so i could give proper credit!) -- so, i signed up to attend (virtually) that meeting (was so happy that i could do something meaningful/enjoyable for my birthday! then thoroughly bummed when it got "postponed") i have to be heading out shortly -- but going to do some digging, to see what can be done in the meantime (probably over the weekend, this week is too chaotic ugh 😩) and of course, no one complains that there are no playgrounds, recreational options, etc. for neighborhood children when some developer wants to build yet another "luxury" high rise! 🤬🤬
	10:56am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Oh sweet FM Cornog! I love this album so much.
	10:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Instant request!
	10:57am JohnEBGood: Cool 👍
	10:58am tom tom the pipers son: thought this was teenage fanclub at first nice song
	10:58am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" east river pipe!
	10:58am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ JohnEBGood @10:38 thanks for asking for this!
	10:58am HyperDose: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:56 Nice to see ya so bright and early, Slugluv!
	10:59am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Lambchop did a nice job with some of his songs but I really love his voice on them.
	10:59am rx "rexy" scabin: Lambchop does a couple of nice covers of East River Pipe on What Another Man Spills.
	11:00am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Bryan (the Professor) what you said.
	11:00am Yes: ↳ Song: "la rue aux chansons avec les choeurs de rene sain... instant transport. how nice
	11:01am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:00 jinx!
	11:01am TDK60: ↳ Song: "la rue aux chansons avec les choeurs de rene sain... There's a fellow who rides his bicycle around Central Park with a music player in his basket, usually blaring E. Piaf and other such voices from the period. (He /does/ wear a beret.)
	11:03am alan the painter: What a gorgeous song, ooh la la!
	11:03am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Interesting story, this east river pipe.
	11:06am northguineahills: ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:03 definitely!
	11:06am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:03 He posts a couple times a year on Twitter. We used to interact on occasion. But I don't think he's had a record in more than a decade. I hope there's more to come. (I'm fine with long waits.)
	11:08am tom tom the pipers son: lots of murmurating starlings in berlin
	11:08am rx "rexy" scabin: They have Kid Rock.
	11:08am Jim the Poet: I would probably vote for Taylor Swift
	11:08am Steve Del Sol: Scared me for a minuet there, Trouble.
	11:09am TDK60: Who is Taylor Swift?
	11:09am The Chief: The right-wing control soooo much but they feel aggrieved and victimized for, like, the 10% that they can't control
	11:09am D Rok: Conservatives have never wanted everyone to vote. Democracy threatens the social hierarchy.
	11:09am paddy in matawan: Might as well be Method Man.
	11:10am love2laf: Coming out of deep lurk to say, Trouble, your delight and mirth at this Taylor Swift silliness is making me chuckle loudly, and my cat thinks I've lost my mind.
	11:10am bixa: dang wish she endorsed Claudia de la Cruz
	11:10am Chris Hiatt: They want to keep the voter turnout to around 14% of the eligible population.
	11:10am Ken From Hyde Park: Waiting for the Parton/Swift ticket.
	11:10am mattjickmarker: The power of a woman is unleashed
	11:11am mattjickmarker: ↳ D Rok @11:09 100% brutha
	11:12am maryevey: Let’s just be clear on net worth here: Travis Kelce = $40 million Taylor Swift = $1 billion Yep, BILLION. That Travis is such a gold-digger
	11:12am WoodsOfMaine: The outrage machine rumbles on. It'd be amusing if it wasn't so sad and scary.
	11:13am captain beef fart: ↳ Song: "stand by your man" by "candi staton" can't hear this without thinking of Jake and Elwood
	11:13am rx "rexy" scabin: They are still smarting over women's suffrage.
	11:14am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:06 I was, as they say, today years old when I first heard about east river pipe. This station, man. Plugging the holes in my Swiss cheese brain rack.
	11:14am paddy in matawan: ↳ captain beef fart @11:13 And Duck Dunn
	11:14am tom tom the pipers son: it's great that someone can swing the vote away from tr**p, but isn't more of the same, money = power
	11:15am Peter in SEA: Bonjour Trouble and Thursday people. Happy Leap Year!
	11:15am honest Bernardo from Argentina: “Karen” y los remedios?? Haha might be the only Karen in Latin America….
	11:16am Toothgrinder Tom: Stan Beyerman.
	11:16am honest Bernardo from Argentina: I’m diggin this jam though…Karen or no Karen
	11:17am Toothgrinder Tom: What is this American football of which you speak?
	11:19am Zip7: I wish Yma Sumac could have run for President. But the "birther" thing . . . rumors circulated that she actually was a Brooklyn housewife named Amy Camus
	11:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Zip7 @11:19 ha! but that would have worked in her favor....!
	11:23am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "two minute warning" by "depeche mode" haven't heard this in a while. Nice!
	11:24am northguineahills: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:17 handegg...
	11:26am rx "rexy" scabin: Clever choice, Trouble. A sport reference?
	11:26am Spikey BXL: ↳ northguineahills @11:24 My dad as a little boy, cried when he received an american football from his emigrated uncle in Indiana. He thought the football had been broken in transport.
	11:27am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:26 quite funny
	11:27am Yes: 😎
	11:28am rx "rexy" scabin: Unfortunately (for me), I must leave to mold teachers minds and change the future or something like that.
	11:29am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:28 give em hell, rexy.
	11:31am northguineahills: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:26 jajaja!
	11:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:26 in a way he was right, it's usually a symbol of a broken mind...
	11:33am Yes: the entire disco discharge series looks wonderful
	11:33am Zip7: ↳ Song: "groove me" by "fern kinney" fukengrüven
	11:35am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "groove me" by "fern kinney" dat harp!
	11:37am RevErie: ↳ Zip7 @11:33 I'm not really into disco but that song is "fukengrüven"
	11:38am Toothgrinder Tom: @northguineahills ha ha!
	11:38am -жеи: ↳ JohnEBGood @10:27 Go on... why was it called suicide hill? It's not a very steep hill...
	11:38am Trouble: contact your local NJ reps about supporting this bill to shut down book bans and put an end to librarian harassment
	11:38am Trouble: pub.njleg.gov...
	11:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Trouble @11:38 wow librarian harassment? yeezy... not that one the other one...
	11:45am Thin Slice: In this case, one of the challengers is married to a member of the school board
	11:45am RevErie: ↳ Trouble @11:38 thank you!
	11:47am convoy_pt2: Its so sad how this country is trainwrecking in to a culture of fear based rules instead of a culture of creativity and growth
	11:47am Christie L: Thank you Trouble for sharing this important info! (From a NJ archivist/librarian)
	11:47am Chris Hiatt: "He left River City the library building But he left all the books to her! Chaucer! Rabelais! Balzac!"
	11:48am Tara: 11 people? geez what an impact, if only we could harness their skills for good
	11:48am Toothgrinder Tom: Balzac? Oh he’s definitely getting banned.
	11:49am northguineahills: i'm so happy to be free of FL....
	11:50am AYAYRON: Trouble, thanks from all the librarians, and librarian adjacent families
	11:50am Yes: FL needs healing, don't give up
	11:51am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:48 I used to have the complete works of Balzac. He liked to play with dolls.
	11:51am alan the painter: Thank you for an inspiring show Trouble
	11:52am Yes: you have the best comps, trouble. thanks for today
	11:52am joe mulligan: Aren’t the people banning books the same people who are screaming for freedom of speech?
	11:52am tom tom the pipers son: thank you trouble i appreciate your show more and more as a listen...
	11:53am Spikey BXL: ↳ joe mulligan @11:52 the freedom of THEIR speech
	11:53am Toothgrinder Tom: @Steve Del Sol upon my honor(é).
	11:53am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:14 He hasn't had nearly the kind of airplay he had 20 years ago. It was a moment. But one I hope comes back! Check out those Lambchop versions on What Another Man Spills, though. They also do some nice work with Dump tunes (James McNew).
	11:53am joe mulligan: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:53 Right, freedom to spew hate speech
	11:54am RevErie: Thanks Trouble!!
	11:54am bradford: Thanks as always, Trouble.
	11:54am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:14 I may have found out about ERP by listening to the Lambchop covers, actually. That's a likely scenario.
	11:54am Toothgrinder Tom: @ Joe Mulligan overprotective housewives versus incel types I’d say.
	11:55am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "say the truth" by "essibons" wild keys...!
	11:55am love2laf: Thank you Trouble, you're sheer delight and happiness at the Swift brouhaha brightened up this very grey morning, and lifted me up. Your support of librarians and books is much appreciated, and it's ever present from month to month. Have a great junior Friday my Troubled friends, thanks for the company.
	11:55am maurer: since we have devolved into politics, I highly recommend reading heather cox richardson's substack, 5 minutes a day keeps me up to date on the s**t show that is american politics... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
	11:56am Spikey BXL: ↳ maurer @11:55 + her lives on zuckbook
	11:56am joe mulligan: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:54 Yes possibly even the housewives of the same men yelling for free speech are asking for speech to be silenced in literature.
	11:56am Trouble: I LOVE DR HEATHER as we call her in our house!
	11:57am Trouble: lay off on the housewives assumptions!
	11:57am maurer: ↳ Trouble @11:56 nice!
	11:57am Toothgrinder Tom: Beautifully curated, Madame DJ!
	11:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Had to dip for a little bit. If you haven't mentioned the album art decoration party on the 16th ... www.eventbrite.com...
	11:57am joe mulligan: ↳ Trouble @11:57 Agreed, bad assumption
	11:58am money&pain: She lives near me! I see her in the coop.
	11:58am oshiwoshi: ↳ Song: "say the truth" by "essibons" cannot resist the wah-clav
	11:58am northguineahills: merci bien, trouble!
	11:58am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:53 Taking notes...
	11:59am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today, and for all of your kind words.
	11:59am Zip7: Wow that was a quick three hours. Thanks, Trouble!
	11:59am Philip: real deal
	11:59am joe mulligan: Thanks for speaking up for librarians Trouble!
	12:00pm StringOFperils: Thanks!
	12:01pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): Thanks, Trouble!
	12:05pm Rich314: The library censorship bill was S1633 for this session, but it looks like it has been withdrawn. Too bad, it looks like exactly what is needed to help ward off senseless censors.

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from February 1, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	New	Approx. start time
Madeleine Cocolas	a memory, blown out	spectral			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
joseph szigeti	partita no 3 in e major /loure	J S Back 6 sonatas and partitas for violin alone			0:04:55 (Pop-up)
ravi shankar	raga abhogi-kanada p.d.	ravi			0:08:56 (Pop-up)
elvis presley	gentle on my mind "gentle on my mind" by "elvis presley"	the memphis record			0:28:15 (Pop-up)
13th Floor Elevators	baby blue "baby blue" by "13th Floor Elevators"	easter everywhere			0:31:31 (Pop-up)

salami rose joe louis	Akousmatikous (feat. Soccer96	Akousmatikous	brainfeeder	*	0:43:15 (Pop-up)
nina simone	i think it's going to rain today	and piano!			0:46:46 (Pop-up)
Phillipe Doray & Les Asociaux Associes	Le Composant Compositeur	Le Composant Compositeur	souffle continu	*	0:49:40 (Pop-up)

David Motion & Sally Potter	eye to eye	ost orlando			1:05:29 (Pop-up)
landfrauenband	impromptu no 4 "impromptu no 4" by "landfrauenband"	impromptus on a prepared piano	izbit in zid records	*	1:09:13 (Pop-up)
david rothenberg/korhan erel	her pipe in growth of riper days	berlin bulbul			1:11:22 (Pop-up)
trond kallevag	kvekerne "kvekerne" by "trond kallevag"	Amerikabåten	hubro	*	1:14:15 (Pop-up)
laurel halo	naked to the light "naked to the light" by "laurel halo"	atlas	awe	*	1:17:43 (Pop-up)
ryuichi sakamoto	hibari "hibari" by "ryuichi sakamoto"	playing the piano			1:21:51 (Pop-up)
cocteau twins	beatrix "beatrix" by "cocteau twins"	bbc sessions			1:30:49 (Pop-up)
caetano veloso	guarde seu conselho	muitos carnavais			1:33:47 (Pop-up)
Os Mulheres Negras	so quero um xodo	Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978–1992			1:37:41 (Pop-up)
wes montgomery	a quiet thing "a quiet thing" by "wes montgomery"	The Trouble With Film: This is the Modern World 2023 WFMU Marathon Premium			1:41:27 (Pop-up)
emahoy tsege mariam gebru	golgotha	Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru	Mississippi Records		1:48:22 (Pop-up)
narciso yepes	heitor villa-lobos/ allegro moderato	12 etuden fur gitarre			1:50:54 (Pop-up)
east river pipe	superstar in france	poor fricky			1:54:28 (Pop-up)
piaf	la rue aux chansons avec les choeurs de rene saint-paul	les meilleurs			1:58:15 (Pop-up)

candi staton	stand by your man "stand by your man" by "candi staton"	stand by your man	kent soul	*	2:09:11 (Pop-up)
karen y los remedios	cartas marinas	silencio	ZZK Records	*	2:11:55 (Pop-up)
fabiano do nascimento	etude 1 "etude 1" by "fabiano do nascimento"	mundo solo			2:14:55 (Pop-up)
hercules and love affair	iris "iris" by "hercules and love affair"	hercules and love affair			2:17:38 (Pop-up)
depeche mode	two minute warning "two minute warning" by "depeche mode"	construction time again			2:21:18 (Pop-up)
fern kinney	groove me "groove me" by "fern kinney"	Disco Discharge: Disco Ladies v/a			2:25:16 (Pop-up)
janet kay	that night "that night" by "janet kay"	definitive hits collection			2:34:05 (Pop-up)
Hollie Cook / Prince Fatty	crying dub	hollie cook in dub			2:37:18 (Pop-up)

azimuth	periscopie "periscopie" by "azimuth"	Andy Votel Brazilika: Subtropical Sun Stroke Psych Out (VA Comp)			2:47:34 (Pop-up)
essibons	say the truth "say the truth" by "essibons"	analog africa no 33: essebons special			2:50:32 (Pop-up)
bettye lavette	Stand Up Like a Man				2:57:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	4:47pm Trouble: Good Morning! the origin of the title of today's show: lithub.com...
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Bright-gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled. Reading that Solnit piece makes me very glad that I have no engagement with social media past these very chatboards.
	9:01am Listener Bryan (the Professor): morning, trouble & troubled modernists.
	9:01am bradford: Good morning Trouble & all!
	9:01am Crownless Gander: Good morning! Solnit is so wise, thank you!
	9:01am Strandlund: Good Morning Trouble and all the Modernaires out there tuning in...
	9:02am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and everyone! My dental appointment was canceled, so I’m able to enjoy the show live and with a non-numb mouth!
	9:02am Edgar from Maine: Gmornin ... Interesting theme and a reminder about why I left all those social media platforms.
	9:02am common: hello, trouble. hello all.
	9:02am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Don't know if you caught it, Trouble, but Scott featured Johnny Boy on the FMU Hitlist segment this morning and it really took me back to the early days. (My early days anyway.) <3
	9:02am TDK60: Hello DJ Trouble.
	9:04am Ben from Newark: Good morning Trouble, everyone!
	9:04am Chris Hiatt: Good morning to all!
	9:04am Dances with Moomins: Cheers to the Moderns. It was a lovely sunny day in SW Finland ( sunset now !)
	9:04am HyperDose: The ascension begins
	9:04am Jim the Poet: This is cool
	9:05am 2/3 of the Perrin Family: in the belly
	9:05am Ike: I can dig it.
	9:05am Robm: morning trouble and fellow troublemakers
	9:07am ami ad: Hello DJ. Hello all.
	9:08am bixa: ↳ Trouble @4:47 hahahaa, enjoyed this, thnx for sharing
	9:08am doctorjazz: Hi all!
	9:10am Paulo AD: Hiya trouble :)
	9:12am StringOFperils: Good morning coffee raga
	9:14am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Trouble @4:47 Sarcasm detected :-)
	9:14am Acid Cazh: Sitar resonator strings always sound like crickets to me.
	9:14am Trouble: happy imbolc/ st brigid's day. brigid is the first female saint with a designated day, says my friend Paul in ireland
	9:15am Triple G: Hello Trouble and Troublemakers
	9:15am Vivian: Nowadays, I only post to social media the latest work from the kiln. Besides that, I may chime in if someone needs help with the TNR group or if someone's dog is on the loose, but that's it. Lately, the neighborhood posts are just selfish rants or full of misinformation. Don't have time for that nonsense.
	9:16am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Acid Cazh @9:14 it's due to the shape of the bridge, which curves away from the strings gradually, instead of dropping off sharply like a guitar or violin. i think it's fascinating that such a small change like that makes such a huge difference in the sound.
	9:17am Triple G: ↳ Song: "raga abhogi-kanada p.d." by "ravi shankar" Musical Instrument Museum (in Phoenix, AZ) is a gem! My wife and I went there last month. A ton of famous musicians' instruments on display, including Ravi Shankar's sitar from the Concert for Bangladesh. mim.org
	9:18am Edgar from Maine: ↳ Triple G @9:17 Agree!! It's a magnificent museum of gigantic scope!
	9:19am HyperDose: Bryce is loving this...wherever he is
	9:20am PaulRobeson1924: Freedom
	9:20am chresti: Morning Touble and troubled!
	9:20am still b/p: ↳ Trouble @9:14 St. Brigid also has a particular woven cross as her symbol. One was in our house when I was a laddie, and they're still spotted around today, sometimes still woven and hanging in homes, sometimes in jewelry.
	9:20am tom tom the pipers son: good morning trouble and people...
	9:20am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Triple G @9:17 Yes, absolutely worth a visit! I spent a whole day there and only saw half of it, I want to go back. They have the FIRST GUITAR ever made, as well as Hendrix' axe, and so much more.
	9:21am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:20 The bass used by "Family Man" Ashton Barrett on some of my fav. dub/reggae LPs... I could go on...
	9:23am northguineahills: i got to work early, so, i decided to explore the neighborhood, and spent time at the irish hunger memorial in battery city (right next to the ferry that goes to jersey city). I feel more refreshed after chillin' and learnin'....
	9:24am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ northguineahills @9:23 that's a beautiful spot, isn't it?
	9:26am Handy Haversack: ↳ northguineahills @9:23 I used to be able to go Greenpoint to Jersey City by water, but they cut service pretty drastically from Wall Street.
	9:26am chresti: ↳ Song: "raga abhogi-kanada p.d." by "ravi shankar" This is going well with the rain this very early pre-coffee time!
	9:28am Paulo AD: I finally managed to drift off to this awesome tune... Then woke myself up snoring hahah
	9:28am Trouble: sorry, apparently this record needs a serious cleaning. hopefully that will get rid of some of that popping noise...
	9:29am Jim the Poet: sounds ok from here
	9:30am Triple G: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:20 @Charles @Edgar Yes, it's really an awe-inspiring and overwhelming space ... could easily spend an entire day there and then some
	9:30am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "gentle on my mind" by "elvis presley" awwww
	9:30am tom tom the pipers son: from shankar to elvis? but it worked...
	9:30am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:24 great view! (also, from my office window, I can see montgomery st)
	9:31am Edgar from Maine: ↳ Triple G @9:30 The charango made out of an armadillo!!
	9:31am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "gentle on my mind" by "elvis presley" Sitar-to-clavinet is a nice transition.
	9:31am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Triple G @9:30 Just remembered - Glen Campbell's bagpipes! (He was a proud Scotsman and would start his shows with a little piping.) Along with his rhinestone suitt.
	9:32am northguineahills: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:26 that sucks. I used to take the greenpoint ferry to wall street back in the day (well, when the ferry became a regular thing)
	9:32am still b/p: The intersection of Presley and Hartford should introduce some kinda....something in the world's energies. Others might feel it right now and not know why, but we do.
	9:32am jg: Best version is Dean Martin but Elvis is right up there
	9:32am Ben from Newark: ↳ Vivian @9:15 Glad to hear that you help out with your local TNR group! My wife Liz works with a number of TNR and animal rescue groups in Essex County. She gets so frustrated when she posts on social media asking for help, but is met with a flood of comments about how cute the cats are, instead of any meaningful offers for assistance.
	9:33am Zip7: Hello Troubled modernists! The Ravi Shankar performance in "Monterey Pop"was my introduction to Indian music and is stlll riveting -- I used to show it in classes
	9:34am maurer: ↳ Song: "baby blue" by "13th Floor Elevators" elevators! all hail roky! (not my fav song from this album, but I will take it!). earthquake might be my fav...
	9:34am Edgar from Maine: ↳ Charles in Chicago @9:31 Alice Coopers silver suit with the tophat made out of mirrors!
	9:35am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "baby blue" by "13th Floor Elevators" isn't trhere video of roky eriksson singing this in the back of a car in a doc about him
	9:35am PNX: What is it about this recording that sounds so good? It's got some kind of low-fi thing going on.
	9:36am Philip: psych-roky.
	9:37am maurer: ↳ PNX @9:35 they had an early 8-track recorder, recorded the band live, then each person re-recorded their performance... so there are 'ghost' vocals from the original band performance as well as the final vocals...
	9:38am Jim the Poet: No! Don't leave me, Baby Blue!
	9:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ maurer @9:37 lsd makes you think funny...
	9:38am Webhamster Henry: Nice Art today, Trouble!
	9:39am PNX: ↳ maurer @9:37 Yes! Thank you!
	9:39am Edgar from Maine: Just birds Trouble.
	9:39am Jim the Poet: I didn't hear it
	9:39am GeorgeHatesFun: No buzzes!
	9:39am bixa: my friend texted me today that they are playing hookey to go to the park and look for first signs of spring and "find a well to clean to honor imbolc today"
	9:39am Triple G: It didn't work, correct
	9:39am Webhamster Henry: Failed!
	9:40am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ Song: "baby blue" by "13th Floor Elevators" What a gorgeous song
	9:40am Triple G: 13th Floor Elevators, straight outta Austin
	9:40am Clincher16": That's the most pleasant emergency alert system test I ever heard!
	9:40am Vivian: My condolences Trouble.
	9:40am Sera from Rockaway: Sorry for your loss, Trouble
	9:40am Edgar from Maine: I do very much like the idea of those horrible alarms being replaced with chirping. Would the FCC be cool with it?
	9:40am Clincher16": ↳ Jim the Poet @9:38 It's all over now, I'm afraid.
	9:40am still b/p: ↳ jg @9:32 Saw this the other day -- our friend Dean with a face the artist or artist's boss thought was better than his real one. Looks like hints of other familiar faces grafted in there for a scoff-worthy pulp-magazine sort of hybrid. www.pulpinternational.com...
	9:40am Webhamster Henry: "This was a test! Of the Emergency Broadcast System! (Did you pass?)" << old radio station cart
	9:40am Karmalize: thanks so much for sharing about beverly gene(jean?)
	9:41am Joe: My condolences, Trouble. Thank you for the tribute. ❤️
	9:41am Regina J: I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother-in-law. Condolences to you and your family.
	9:41am Karmalize: my sister Alisa also let go on tuesday, and i played baby blue for her in hospice on her guitar
	9:41am Sera from Rockaway: WOW! Bev met the King
	9:42am Karmalize: your motherinlaw seems so cool
	9:42am Sera from Rockaway: ↳ Karmalize @9:41 That's really beautiful K, so sorry for your loss. Music is the balm
	9:43am Jim the Poet: ↳ Clincher16" @9:40 Baby Blue is always dumping me
	9:44am Clincher16": ↳ Jim the Poet @9:43 LOVE the new Framptuary avatar, Poet Man!
	9:45am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Sending love to all of you, Trouble!
	9:45am tom tom the pipers son: condolences to your husband(and you) i worked with him briefly a long time ago
	9:46am common: ↳ Song: "Akousmatikous (feat. Soccer96" by "salami rose jo... this is cool
	9:46am Clincher16": You're a sweet soul, Trouble. May your mominlaw's memory be for a blessing.
	9:46am Zip7: Best wishes to you and your family, Trouble
	9:47am D Rok: ↳ Song: "Akousmatikous (feat. Soccer96" by "salami rose jo... Jesus, this is good! I had already added it to my bandcamp wishlist, but glad to be reminded how amazing it is.
	9:48am Ben from Newark: Best wishes to you and your husband, Trouble
	9:48am Philip: Nina!!!! Thanks for this
	9:49am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "i think it's going to rain today" by "nina simone" Great call, Trouble. Sympathy and solidarity for you and your family. Glad we could all be here to hear you.
	9:50am PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Song: "i think it's going to rain today" by "nina simone" I have such a hard time reconciling that the guy who wrote this song is also the guy who wrote "Short People"
	9:51am Clincher16": ↳ PigeonsAndRust @9:50 You should hear "Rednecks." Randy works on a whole other level.
	9:51am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "i think it's going to rain today" by "nina simone" Cool Version!
	9:52am Toothgrinder Tom: ‘Short People’ is so over the top that I assume it must be some kind of joke or satire of something.
	9:52am Jamie: Trouble... i have been very delinquent in my intention to thank you for your excellent show ... but how can i not mention this wild coincidence to you ...(even as i offer you condolences for your loss): My mother's name was 'Beverly Jean', and while looking after my grandmother's failing health at the Mayo in MN (long ago), she had daily smoking breaks and long conversations "...with a very interesting man who wore unusual leather clothing...". One day he asked her if she know who he was. She. Did. Not. Know she had been spending her smoking breaks chatting with Johnny Cash.
	9:54am money&pain: ↳ Clincher16" @9:51 And Guilty! And Suzanne (not the LC one)
	9:54am Spikey BXL: ↳ Song: "Le Composant Compositeur" by "Phillipe Doray & Le... I can almost smell Gainsbourg on this one
	9:54am Trouble: that is an insane story@ jamie: wow!
	9:55am Dan S: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @9:50 I like and admire Randy Newman for his ability to write both sincere and satiric songs.
	9:55am Spikey BXL: Condolences to you, Trouble.
	9:56am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jamie @9:52 Holy crow!
	9:59am StringOFperils: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:52 All of Randy Newman's writing IS some kind of joke or satire of something, often self-satire, like advertising jingles written by Mark Twain
	10:00am Edgar from Maine: There we go. FCC can sleep now.
	10:01am Handy Haversack: I am alerted.
	10:01am Scott Williams: GOOD JOB
	10:01am money&pain: I'd say irony is the word, for most of the songs.
	10:01am blee: i heard the warning blips!
	10:01am Dan S: We heard the EAS tones, so i think you're good.
	10:02am Toothgrinder Tom: @StringOfPerils one might say ‘it’s a jungle out there.’
	10:02am JohnEBGood: Hi DJ Trouble. Happy New Year : )
	10:02am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @9:52 I remember when that song came out, I was a mildly shocked that some people were offended, not understanding the satire. He lays it on pretty thick!
	10:03am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles I was just a kid so found it initially kind of shocking (I was unfamiliar with satire at that age).
	10:04am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:03 I was well-schooled thanks to MAD Magazine :-)
	10:05am Toothgrinder Tom: If Mr Fireman really wants to help ‘the people,’ he could donate his private golf course to the city as a municipal golf course.
	10:06am Panther: Billionaires suck!!!!
	10:07am Ben from Newark: ↳ Clincher16" @9:51 Yes, incredible song, and his sarcasm is lost on so many people. Same with "Louisiana 1927", which was replayed/covered a lot during Hurricane Katrina, despite being an incredibly cynical song about the flood ("ain't it a shame, what the river has done to this poor cracker's land")
	10:07am loucommando: I loooove Orlando sound trck
	10:07am Edgar from Maine: Goldman Sachs only cares about shareholder value. That is exactly the opposite of public service. F*ck em.
	10:08am Toothgrinder Tom: I wish he would amuse himself by getting Ivy League college presidents fired as other public-minded billionaires are wont to do.
	10:08am loucommando: Thats some art school brat music right there!!
	10:09am Webhamster Henry: ↳ Dances with Moomins @9:04 Hi Dances w/ Moomins! My son came back from Stockholm with lots of Moomin Merch like (holding it up) this Snorkmaiden branded lip gloss!
	10:09am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles that wasn’t quite on my radar yet being only about 7, but I was about to be exposed to Steve Martin’s ‘King Tut’ parody song, so progress was being made.
	10:11am Ben from Newark: ↳ Dan S @9:55 sometimes both in the same song!
	10:12am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @10:09 Born in Arizona, Moved to Babylonia!
	10:12am tom tom the pipers son: a favorite song , "baltimore" also touches on a sad irony..." get a cart to take us all away", "never coming back here til the day i die", pipedreams, like the end of the film "parasite"
	10:12am money&pain: ↳ Ben from Newark @10:07 Actually, since the point of the song was that no politicians actually cared about the people afflicted, kind of the perfect song
	10:13am StringOFperils: Wealth-mining in America 1.01. Hopefully the public will be motivated to lobby that park redevelopment away somehow. Yeesh.....I know I know I'm still obsessing...
	10:13am Charles in Chicago: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:12 there's a great reggae version of Baltimore by the Tamlins ... and "Taxi to Baltimore Dub" on Scientist's "Scientific Dub" album (which I love)
	10:14am Ben from Newark: ↳ money&pain @10:12 Very, very true. My point was more that the song was covered at the time as a "song of hope" type thing. But totally true, and a sad example of history repeating itself
	10:15am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:13 i usually find reggae covers remarkable thx
	10:15am money&pain: ↳ Ben from Newark @10:14 Yeah! I mean unintentionally appropriate.
	10:16am JohnEBGood: Go Go Go DJ! Legend Coach Bob Hurley has spoken up. JC needs an ice rink. Joe Duffy was active in the 1970's to preserve the park at Grand and Washington. He fought and we won!! Peace 🥂
	10:16am money&pain: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:15 Not reggae, but Nilsson's album of Newman covers is nice.
	10:17am HotTopicValuedCustomer: Been loving this album lately
	10:17am money&pain: Meanwhile, like the sweet melancholy vibe today, Trouble. Thank you.
	10:17am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ money&pain @10:16 sort of familiar with that, but "baltimore" is not covered, right?
	10:18am Trouble: @ johnebgood: Coach hurley receives a $250, 000 salary to head this specious non profit created by paul fireman. he is no longer a good guy
	10:19am Charles in Chicago: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:17 nope www.discogs.com...
	10:20am Trouble: nina simone does a great version of "Baltimore"
	10:21am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:19 (Just realized for the first time that the GBV song "Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5" is probably referencing Randy Newman's "Dayton, Ohio 1903"... I don't know a lot of these Randy Newman songs)
	10:21am StringOFperils: I like Nina Simone's cover of . Baltimore .
	10:21am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:19 i remember "the behive state" having great lyrics...
	10:21am Charles in Chicago: ↳ Trouble @10:20 Yeah, I think the reggae version is based on Nina Simone's version.
	10:22am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:21 yes the simone version is reggae tinged
	10:22am Charles in Chicago: Newman -> Simone -> Tamlins -> Scientist. (And I heard the Scientist version first!)
	10:22am HotTopicValuedCustomer: ↳ Charles in Chicago @10:21 GBV is so much its own universe at this point I forget that it exists alongside Randy Newman
	10:23am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and troubled ears.
	10:23am Charles in Chicago: "The Tamlins gained wider attention for their Sly and Robbie–produced version of the Randy Newman song "Baltimore", which gave them one of the biggest hits in Jamaica in 1979. The arrangement on that single was strongly influenced by that used on Nina Simone's cover of the song, released the previous year"
	10:26am money&pain: Well, we managed a whole Randy Newman thread without mentioning his greatest song-- Sail Away.
	10:26am tom tom the pipers son: one of my favorite lyrics from baltimore, "beat up little seagull on a marble stair" so effective, the contrast of soft and hard...
	10:27am JohnEBGood: Oh well. It's still JC. I grew up Downtown when Colgates had the waterfront. Sussex Street to the Hudson River we called Suicide Hill.
	10:27am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone.
	10:30am rx "rexy" scabin: Just read back into the comments. Condolences.
	10:31am rx "rexy" scabin: @Handy Haversack same here.
	10:31am Fredericks: ↳ Trouble @9:28 Tite Bond II.
	10:34am Listener Bryan (the Professor): wow, this set. but the sakamoto b/w cocteau twins just pushes it over the edge. so good.
	10:34am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "beatrix" by "cocteau twins" this is reminding me of kate bush
	10:35am ranjit: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:34 me too! (I feel like i am often dittoing you, tom tom)
	10:36am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @10:34 Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt.
	10:37am ranjit: i never attempt.
	10:37am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ranjit @10:35 yes, ha! btw, that eastman that david w played yesterday was beyond beyond...huh...
	10:38am JohnEBGood: Hey DJ, are you familiar with musician East River Pipe? WFMU DJ 's have played the music and I like it : )
	10:38am Toothgrinder Tom: @Charles 10:12 had a condo made of stone-ah.
	10:38am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ranjit @10:35 somehow... i must be the faster typist...;)
	10:38am ranjit: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:37 it really was
	10:39am Dances with Moomins: ↳ Webhamster Henry @10:09 Hi Webmaster, They have much to teach those rascally moomins.
	10:40am Trouble: i have east river pipe with me today and it will be up soon...
	10:43am Yes: morning all
	10:44am bixa: ↳ Song: "a quiet thing" by "wes montgomery" beautiful ♥
	10:47am tom tom the pipers son: this is gebru
	10:47am Toothgrinder Tom: Wow Wes Montgomery on the woofmoo airwaves!
	10:52am G: so quero um xodo was a popular Brazilian country song in the 70s when I lived there. It means roughly "I Only Want a Girlfriend."
	10:53am Feldy: Really enjoying the heck outta the show!
	10:53am tom tom the pipers son: the last three especially have been a nice fit, that gebru, so natural, like a bird walking across keyboard
	10:54am Handy Haversack: I'll have to be in a meeting the last hour of the show, but I'll have it in my headphones. It's been wonderful, Trouble! Many thanks!
	10:54am Chris Hiatt: Back with you all. Had to check the price of swedes, it's not good today.
	10:56am slugluv1313: good morning, Trouble! Trouble Makers! 😺😺 thank.you for talking about Liberty State Park! a listener also commented about this a few nights ago (wish i could remember their name, so i could give proper credit!) -- so, i signed up to attend (virtually) that meeting (was so happy that i could do something meaningful/enjoyable for my birthday! then thoroughly bummed when it got "postponed") i have to be heading out shortly -- but going to do some digging, to see what can be done in the meantime (probably over the weekend, this week is too chaotic ugh 😩) and of course, no one complains that there are no playgrounds, recreational options, etc. for neighborhood children when some developer wants to build yet another "luxury" high rise! 🤬🤬
	10:56am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Oh sweet FM Cornog! I love this album so much.
	10:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Instant request!
	10:57am JohnEBGood: Cool 👍
	10:58am tom tom the pipers son: thought this was teenage fanclub at first nice song
	10:58am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" east river pipe!
	10:58am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ JohnEBGood @10:38 thanks for asking for this!
	10:58am HyperDose: ↳ slugluv1313 @10:56 Nice to see ya so bright and early, Slugluv!
	10:59am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Lambchop did a nice job with some of his songs but I really love his voice on them.
	10:59am rx "rexy" scabin: Lambchop does a couple of nice covers of East River Pipe on What Another Man Spills.
	11:00am rx "rexy" scabin: @Listener Bryan (the Professor) what you said.
	11:00am Yes: ↳ Song: "la rue aux chansons avec les choeurs de rene sain... instant transport. how nice
	11:01am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:00 jinx!
	11:01am TDK60: ↳ Song: "la rue aux chansons avec les choeurs de rene sain... There's a fellow who rides his bicycle around Central Park with a music player in his basket, usually blaring E. Piaf and other such voices from the period. (He /does/ wear a beret.)
	11:03am alan the painter: What a gorgeous song, ooh la la!
	11:03am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "superstar in france" by "east river pipe" Interesting story, this east river pipe.
	11:06am northguineahills: ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:03 definitely!
	11:06am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:03 He posts a couple times a year on Twitter. We used to interact on occasion. But I don't think he's had a record in more than a decade. I hope there's more to come. (I'm fine with long waits.)
	11:08am tom tom the pipers son: lots of murmurating starlings in berlin
	11:08am rx "rexy" scabin: They have Kid Rock.
	11:08am Jim the Poet: I would probably vote for Taylor Swift
	11:08am Steve Del Sol: Scared me for a minuet there, Trouble.
	11:09am TDK60: Who is Taylor Swift?
	11:09am The Chief: The right-wing control soooo much but they feel aggrieved and victimized for, like, the 10% that they can't control
	11:09am D Rok: Conservatives have never wanted everyone to vote. Democracy threatens the social hierarchy.
	11:09am paddy in matawan: Might as well be Method Man.
	11:10am love2laf: Coming out of deep lurk to say, Trouble, your delight and mirth at this Taylor Swift silliness is making me chuckle loudly, and my cat thinks I've lost my mind.
	11:10am bixa: dang wish she endorsed Claudia de la Cruz
	11:10am Chris Hiatt: They want to keep the voter turnout to around 14% of the eligible population.
	11:10am Ken From Hyde Park: Waiting for the Parton/Swift ticket.
	11:10am mattjickmarker: The power of a woman is unleashed
	11:11am mattjickmarker: ↳ D Rok @11:09 100% brutha
	11:12am maryevey: Let’s just be clear on net worth here: Travis Kelce = $40 million Taylor Swift = $1 billion Yep, BILLION. That Travis is such a gold-digger
	11:12am WoodsOfMaine: The outrage machine rumbles on. It'd be amusing if it wasn't so sad and scary.
	11:13am captain beef fart: ↳ Song: "stand by your man" by "candi staton" can't hear this without thinking of Jake and Elwood
	11:13am rx "rexy" scabin: They are still smarting over women's suffrage.
	11:14am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:06 I was, as they say, today years old when I first heard about east river pipe. This station, man. Plugging the holes in my Swiss cheese brain rack.
	11:14am paddy in matawan: ↳ captain beef fart @11:13 And Duck Dunn
	11:14am tom tom the pipers son: it's great that someone can swing the vote away from tr**p, but isn't more of the same, money = power
	11:15am Peter in SEA: Bonjour Trouble and Thursday people. Happy Leap Year!
	11:15am honest Bernardo from Argentina: “Karen” y los remedios?? Haha might be the only Karen in Latin America….
	11:16am Toothgrinder Tom: Stan Beyerman.
	11:16am honest Bernardo from Argentina: I’m diggin this jam though…Karen or no Karen
	11:17am Toothgrinder Tom: What is this American football of which you speak?
	11:19am Zip7: I wish Yma Sumac could have run for President. But the "birther" thing . . . rumors circulated that she actually was a Brooklyn housewife named Amy Camus
	11:20am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Zip7 @11:19 ha! but that would have worked in her favor....!
	11:23am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "two minute warning" by "depeche mode" haven't heard this in a while. Nice!
	11:24am northguineahills: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:17 handegg...
	11:26am rx "rexy" scabin: Clever choice, Trouble. A sport reference?
	11:26am Spikey BXL: ↳ northguineahills @11:24 My dad as a little boy, cried when he received an american football from his emigrated uncle in Indiana. He thought the football had been broken in transport.
	11:27am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:26 quite funny
	11:27am Yes: 😎
	11:28am rx "rexy" scabin: Unfortunately (for me), I must leave to mold teachers minds and change the future or something like that.
	11:29am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ rx "rexy" scabin @11:28 give em hell, rexy.
	11:31am northguineahills: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:26 jajaja!
	11:32am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:26 in a way he was right, it's usually a symbol of a broken mind...
	11:33am Yes: the entire disco discharge series looks wonderful
	11:33am Zip7: ↳ Song: "groove me" by "fern kinney" fukengrüven
	11:35am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "groove me" by "fern kinney" dat harp!
	11:37am RevErie: ↳ Zip7 @11:33 I'm not really into disco but that song is "fukengrüven"
	11:38am Toothgrinder Tom: @northguineahills ha ha!
	11:38am -жеи: ↳ JohnEBGood @10:27 Go on... why was it called suicide hill? It's not a very steep hill...
	11:38am Trouble: contact your local NJ reps about supporting this bill to shut down book bans and put an end to librarian harassment
	11:38am Trouble: pub.njleg.gov...
	11:40am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Trouble @11:38 wow librarian harassment? yeezy... not that one the other one...
	11:45am Thin Slice: In this case, one of the challengers is married to a member of the school board
	11:45am RevErie: ↳ Trouble @11:38 thank you!
	11:47am convoy_pt2: Its so sad how this country is trainwrecking in to a culture of fear based rules instead of a culture of creativity and growth
	11:47am Christie L: Thank you Trouble for sharing this important info! (From a NJ archivist/librarian)
	11:47am Chris Hiatt: "He left River City the library building But he left all the books to her! Chaucer! Rabelais! Balzac!"
	11:48am Tara: 11 people? geez what an impact, if only we could harness their skills for good
	11:48am Toothgrinder Tom: Balzac? Oh he’s definitely getting banned.
	11:49am northguineahills: i'm so happy to be free of FL....
	11:50am AYAYRON: Trouble, thanks from all the librarians, and librarian adjacent families
	11:50am Yes: FL needs healing, don't give up
	11:51am Steve Del Sol: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:48 I used to have the complete works of Balzac. He liked to play with dolls.
	11:51am alan the painter: Thank you for an inspiring show Trouble
	11:52am Yes: you have the best comps, trouble. thanks for today
	11:52am joe mulligan: Aren’t the people banning books the same people who are screaming for freedom of speech?
	11:52am tom tom the pipers son: thank you trouble i appreciate your show more and more as a listen...
	11:53am Spikey BXL: ↳ joe mulligan @11:52 the freedom of THEIR speech
	11:53am Toothgrinder Tom: @Steve Del Sol upon my honor(é).
	11:53am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:14 He hasn't had nearly the kind of airplay he had 20 years ago. It was a moment. But one I hope comes back! Check out those Lambchop versions on What Another Man Spills, though. They also do some nice work with Dump tunes (James McNew).
	11:53am joe mulligan: ↳ Spikey BXL @11:53 Right, freedom to spew hate speech
	11:54am RevErie: Thanks Trouble!!
	11:54am bradford: Thanks as always, Trouble.
	11:54am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Chris Hiatt @11:14 I may have found out about ERP by listening to the Lambchop covers, actually. That's a likely scenario.
	11:54am Toothgrinder Tom: @ Joe Mulligan overprotective housewives versus incel types I’d say.
	11:55am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "say the truth" by "essibons" wild keys...!
	11:55am love2laf: Thank you Trouble, you're sheer delight and happiness at the Swift brouhaha brightened up this very grey morning, and lifted me up. Your support of librarians and books is much appreciated, and it's ever present from month to month. Have a great junior Friday my Troubled friends, thanks for the company.
	11:55am maurer: since we have devolved into politics, I highly recommend reading heather cox richardson's substack, 5 minutes a day keeps me up to date on the s**t show that is american politics... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
	11:56am Spikey BXL: ↳ maurer @11:55 + her lives on zuckbook
	11:56am joe mulligan: ↳ Toothgrinder Tom @11:54 Yes possibly even the housewives of the same men yelling for free speech are asking for speech to be silenced in literature.
	11:56am Trouble: I LOVE DR HEATHER as we call her in our house!
	11:57am Trouble: lay off on the housewives assumptions!
	11:57am maurer: ↳ Trouble @11:56 nice!
	11:57am Toothgrinder Tom: Beautifully curated, Madame DJ!
	11:57am Ken From Hyde Park: Had to dip for a little bit. If you haven't mentioned the album art decoration party on the 16th ... www.eventbrite.com...
	11:57am joe mulligan: ↳ Trouble @11:57 Agreed, bad assumption
	11:58am money&pain: She lives near me! I see her in the coop.
	11:58am oshiwoshi: ↳ Song: "say the truth" by "essibons" cannot resist the wah-clav
	11:58am northguineahills: merci bien, trouble!
	11:58am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @11:53 Taking notes...
	11:59am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today, and for all of your kind words.
	11:59am Zip7: Wow that was a quick three hours. Thanks, Trouble!
	11:59am Philip: real deal
	11:59am joe mulligan: Thanks for speaking up for librarians Trouble!
	12:00pm StringOFperils: Thanks!
	12:01pm Listener Bryan (the Professor): Thanks, Trouble!
	12:05pm Rich314: The library censorship bill was S1633 for this session, but it looks like it has been withdrawn. Too bad, it looks like exactly what is needed to help ward off senseless censors.

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from February 1, 2024

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